Updated on Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 00:00 IST

New Delhi, Nov 25: Troops from the Indian and Mongolian armies are exercising counter-insurgency manoeuvres at a 14-day camp in Vairangte-based training school in Mizoram.

Defence Ministry said the exercise was part of the continuing army-to-army relations between the two countries and this was the fourth in the series of exercise and the second on Indian soil.

A total of 30 Mongolian and 70 Indian army troops are attending the exercise that started on November 17. "The Mongolian side is led by a Major General and there is a Colonel-rank officer too in the team," a source said.

Two earlier exercises were held in Mongolia twice and the third in Vairangate's Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS).

"The focus of this and the previously held exercises have been on counter insurgency and counter terrorism," the source said.

The CIJWS of the Indian Army provides specialised training to Indian troops in dealing with insurgency and terrorists.

The school has been hosting a number of foreign armed forces, who wanted to exercise with India and learn from its rich experience of fighting insurgency for over six decades in the North-east and three decades in Jammu and Kashmir.

Bureau Report